SENIOR SCHOOL
2016 School Leaders
Congratulations to the following students, who have been
awarded leadership positions in the Senior School for 2016:
Prefects 2016
• Trentan Davey
House Captains 2016
• Cassius Hynam, Captain of School 2016
• Charles Cassell, Vice-Captain of School 2016
• Benjamin Dunne, Captain of Boarding 2016
• Trentan Davey
School Sacristan 2016
• Jack Grant, School House
• Alex Ambrosi, Stirling House
• Matthew Healy, St George’s House
• Bailey Gillam
• Sebastian Boyd, Henn’s House
• Jack Grant
• Bailey Gillam, Harper House
• Matthew Healy
• Ronald (RJ) Pollard, Woodbridge House
• Ronald (RJ) Pollard
• Steele Anderson, Freeth House
• Nicholas Rollo
• Tristan van Herk, Bennett House
RUOK? Day at Guildford Grammar School
Guildford Grammar School has been
promoting RUOK? Day and its valuable
messages for four years now. The message
that it is OK to not be OK sometimes. The
message that if you are not OK you can talk
to someone and they will support you or
help find someone else who can support
you. The message about how to support
someone if they are going through a tough
time, and most importantly the message
that this is not just for one day – that we
support each other in this way every day.
The reason days such as RUOK? Day are so
important is that the statistics on mental
health difficulties tell us it is common to
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Current Australian statistics show that
as many as 45% of people will have a mental
illness over their lifetime, and that 20%,
or 1 out of every 5 people, will have a
mental illness in any given year.
have struggles. Current Australian statistics
show that as many as 45% of people will
have a mental illness over their lifetime,
and that 20%, or 1 out of every 5 people,
will have a mental illness in any given year.
This is higher still for young people, at
the 1 in every 4 mark. These statistics are
not just for other people or other schools
– at Guildford Grammar School we see
about 20% of students accessing School